commune

How To Use commune In A Sentence

• Imaginez au contraire que, dans chaque commune, il y ait un bourgeois, un seul, ayant lu Bastiat, et que ce bourgeois-là soit respecté, les choses changeraient! Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
• Co-housing might seem to carry the ideological baggage of communes from decades past.
• He gave up his job in the city and joined a commune.
• December 7, a municipal, at the head of a deputation from the Commune, came to read to the king a decree which ordered him to take from the prisoners "knives, razors, scissors, penknives, and all other sharp instruments of which prisoners presumed criminal are deprived; and to make a most minute search of their persons and of their apartments. The Ruin of a Princess
• I have often thought that living through the 1950s – as an intelligent, sensitive woman – makes the current political atmosphere seem like a dirty-toenailed commune. Older and wiser, telling you what to do
• I took time to commune with God and I already feel more complete.
• There are over 100 lezzie communes all over the country. The late afternoon, mid-winter garden walk.
• And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
• A major function of the commune was to regulate relations inhering in economic independence, from dividing peasant landholdings equitably to adjusting the rent they paid their owners.
• It was organized as a commune in 1052 but was still part of the Kingdom of Italy.